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James Otis's Profile

Brief about James Otis: By info that we know James Otis was born at 1970-01-01. And also James Otis is American Lawyer.

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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Tags: Care, Men, Truth

A man's house is his castle.

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Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

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I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

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A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

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I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

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I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

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If we are not represented, we are slaves.

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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

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Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

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I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

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Every lover is a soldier.

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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Tags: Anger, Men, Peace
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